I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.